Prostate biopsy, any mthd at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$720.40
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$1,801.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$28.56 with Molina vs $3,372.05 with United Healthcare — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Molina | Apple Health | $28.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $30.84 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $30.84 | ↓ -96% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $30.84 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $30.84 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $89.96 | ↓ -88% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $101.38 | ↓ -86% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $409.96 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $422.26 | ↓ -41% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $422.26 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $426.36 | ↓ -41% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $430.46 | ↓ -40% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $430.46 | ↓ -40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $450.96 | ↓ -37% |
| Premera | HMO | $607.17 | ↓ -16% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $930.74 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,082.19 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,082.19 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,138.39 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,152.80 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,172.97 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,313.32 | ↑ +82% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,342.87 | ↑ +86% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,650.42 | ↑ +129% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,826.19 | ↑ +153% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,826.19 | ↑ +153% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,878.37 | ↑ +161% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,087.07 | ↑ +190% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,111.39 | ↑ +193% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,460.80 | ↑ +242% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $2,549.13 | ↑ +254% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,372.05 | ↑ +368% |
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Prostate biopsy, any mthd at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $361.53 | $363.84 – $881.87 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $720.40 | $28.70 – $1,720.62 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $201.60 | $399.43 – $439.38 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $224.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $146.40 | $367.14 – $1,332.03 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $284.20 | $399.43 – $1,020.28 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $146.40 | $367.14 – $1,289.52 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $146.40 | $367.14 – $1,332.03 |